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The UK is celebrating 50 years in space. Ariel 1 was the first satellite to be designed and operated by the UK. It was launched on 26 April 1962 Ariel-1 in cooperation with NASA. The Ariel programme which lasted for several years, with the subsequent launch of Ariel 2 through 6, set the field for several areas of space exploration, like X-ray astronomy, space dust research, space based radio astronomy, solar radiation detection and much more. You can read more about the history of UK in Space here…

The Earth’s orbit is full of all kinds of floating debris; a growing crowd of abandoned satellites, spent rocket stages, bits of broken spacecraft, and fragments from collisions are rocketing around the planet at breathtaking speeds.

In 2007 China shot down one of its own aging weather satellites, in a kind of target practice in low Earth orbit. The satellite was 500 miles above the Earth’s surface. The explosion created a cloud of debris in space, adding to the amount of “space junk” circling the Earth.

The Swiss Space Center at EPFL is launching CleanSpace One, a project to build the first prototype in a family of “de-orbiting” satellites.

Google is rolling out in the next few days Search+. When signed in with Google+, you’ll find personal results and profiles of people you know or follow. You can even expand your world by discovering people related to your search.